Prom 26 (part 1): Shostakovich and Berio
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, London Voices and the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko in a performance of Berio's Sinfonia.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko live at the 大象传媒 Proms play Berio's witty Sinfonia, contrasted after the interval with with Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony
Berio: Sinfonia
8.00pm Interval
8.20pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
London Voices
European Union Youth Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko . Berio's Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture - a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it.
Shostakovich's embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer's most confrontational works.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 11th August at 2pm.
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Prom 26 (part 2)
Shostakovich and Berio
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia
Orchestra: European Union Youth Orchestra. Choir: London Voices.
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- Tue 5 Aug 2014 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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